Army lambasts JI chief for calling terrorists ‘martyrs’

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In a rare but furious reaction, Pakistan Army on Sunday lambasted head of a religious party for declaring terrorists killed in the war against terror ‘martyrs’ but denying the honorific for army soldiers killed in battle with the Taliban.

In a strongly worded statement, the ISPR asked Munawar Hassan to clear the position of his party on the issue. Families of martyred army personnel and people who lost their loved ones in the terrorist attacks demand Jamaat-e-Islamai chief to tender an ‘unconditional apology’, it said.

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